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Bootstrap Site Blueprints

You're reading from   Bootstrap Site Blueprints Without Bootstrap your web designs may not be reaching their full potential. This book will change that through a series of hands-on projects covering everything from custom icon fonts to JavaScript plugins.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782164524
Length 304 pages
Edition Edition
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David Cochran David Cochran
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Ian Whitley Ian Whitley
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Bootstrap Site Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Bootstrap FREE CHAPTER 2. Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio 3. Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme 4. Bootstrappin' Business 5. Bootstrappin' E-commerce 6. Bootstrappin' a One-page Marketing Website Optimizing Site Assets Implementing Responsive Images Adding Swipe to the Carousel Index

What we'll build


We've thrown together a couple of home page mock-ups. Though we have in mind what we want for large screens, we've begun with a handheld screen size to force ourselves to focus on the essentials.

You'll notice the following features:

  • A collapsed responsive navbar with logo

  • A sliding carousel with four images of featured portfolio items

  • A single-column layout with three blocks of content, each with a heading, short paragraph, and a nice big button with an invitation to read further

  • A footer with social media links

Here is the design mockup as shown in the following screenshot:

Altogether, this should provide a good introduction to our work. The carousel is tall enough to give a good amount of visual space to our portfolio images. It is not difficult to navigate quickly to the content below, where a user can efficiently scan key options for taking a next step inside. By presenting key links as nice big buttons, we will establish helpful visual hierarchy for the key action items,...

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